88 Annals of the Philosophical Club 



when, through an oversight, one was not summoned, and 

 in the same month of 1889, because of the recent death of 

 Mr. John Ball, then Treasurer. Since the foundation of 

 the Club in April 1847, I 39 Fellows of the Royal Society 

 had been or still were members of it, 81 of whom had died. 

 At present there were 47 ordinary members, 10 honorary 

 supernumerary members, and i who had resigned. Of the 

 47 original members, 4 were living, 3 of them, Sir W. Bowman, 

 Sir W. Grove, and Sir J. D. Hooker, being still on the list, 

 Sir R. Owen having resigned in 1885. In the fourth division 

 of the Club's existence, from 1880 to the present day, 25 new 

 members had been elected, 2 of whom had died. At the 

 present time 12 members of the Club were of more than 

 20 years' standing. A classified list of the names since the 

 3Oist meeting is appended. 



At the Anniversary Meeting on April 28th, 1892, the 

 death of Sir W. Bowman was announced, and a vote of 

 sympathy with Lady Bowman and his family was passed. 

 The Treasurer moved the resolution of which the late 

 member had given notice, which was carried by a majority 

 greater than the requisite four-fifths of the twenty-nine 

 members present, with an addition moved by General 

 Strachey, that the rules of the Royal Society Club in regard 

 to admitting to the dinners persons not members of the Club 

 be adopted provisionally by the Philosophical Club. 



Dr W. T. Blanford succeeded Professor Judd as Treasurer, 

 and the vacancies caused by the deaths of Sir W. Bowman 

 and Professor Hirst were filled by the election of Professor 

 T. E. Thorpe and Dr. D. Sharp. 



SIR T. EDWARD THORPE was born near Manchester on Dec. 8th, 

 1845, and educated at Owens College, Bonn, and Heidelberg. From 

 the Professorship of Chemistry at Leeds, he was appointed to that 

 of the Royal College of Science in London hi 1885, afterwards becom- 

 ing Director of the Government Laboratories, South Kensington. 

 Elected F.R.S. in 1876, he received a Royal Medal in 1889, was 

 made C.B. in 1900 and knight in 1909, is a Ph.D. and honorary 

 doctor of Leeds, Manchester, Dublin, and Glasgow. His contribu- 

 tions to chemical science are many and valuable, including a 

 Dictionary of Applied Chemistry. 



